Wake Me When It's Over
My fingers, locked in the spasms before death, were still clutching the torn admission slip.
My nails had turned a dark bluish-purple, embedded deeply into my flesh. The blood that had flowed from my temple had long dried, forming a dark red stain on the concrete.
Mom walked over and nudged my stiff foot with the tip of her heel, her expression full of disgust. "What kind of act are you putting on now?"
She rolled the zero-score paper into a tube and struck my shoulder with it. "You think a bit of fake blood is going to get you out of copying this paper a hundred times?"